Friday, December 30, 2016

Museum of Bank Indonesia is located near the Jakarta Old Town. The museum is housed in a heritage building in Jakarta Old Town which had been the first headquarters of the Netherlands Indies gulden (De Javasche bank), the central bank of Dutch East Indies. The bank was nationalized as Bank Indonesia in 1953, after Indonesia gained its independence.

This museum was founded by Bank Indonesia and opened on July 2009 by the 6th President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

The design of this museum is so modern, though from outside it looks classic and old. Inside the building we can see the history of spice monopoly by the Dutch East India Company in the Indonesia archipelago, the history of payment system that changes over time, monetary policy, etc.

Worker lifted the spices

"Bersaing buntung, bersatu untung"

Old pictures of colonialism

Old rupiah currency, it seems like dollar

The museum also provide visitors with audio and visual tools to learn history of currencies and trade in Indonesia from pre-colonial to the present state.

Visual slides of history

Furthermore, the museum also has currencies collection from other countries in the world.

Type of money

This museum is so wide, there are also some rooms which usually is used for meeting long time ago. On the center of building, the area is focused on the garden, though the plants are not many, but you can see the blue sky and enjoy the classic old tone...I've visited this museum twice and never bored to come again and again.

Just ignore our dark face

Pretty lotus on the yard

Quote :

"If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is a part of a tree"
~ Michael Crichton

Sunday, October 30, 2016

Zoo is not only fun place to visit for children, but it fits me so well...hahaha *lol
It was a pleasure to see how the animal life. How they play, how they interact with other family, what is their favorite food.

On the Independence Day of my country (Indonesia) at 17th August, I went to one of the most famous zoo in Jakarta..yep it is called Ragunan Zoo. The entry ticket was not expensive (about IDR 4000) , but now we have to use JakCard to enter Ragunan Zoo. JakCard is similar with e-ticket, we can use it for Jakarta public transportation also, we also able to top up when the balance in limit.

Ragunan zoo is quite large area, beside the animals, they also have beautiful garden, amusement park, cafetaria, mini train, primata schmutzer, etc. Primata Schmutzer, I think it's fantastic place that must to be visited.

This Mr.Raccoon is very fat, too much eat..hey you!

Hahaha

Heyy bigy bigy Elephant

See giraffes, remembering me with Kwang So

Deers, is time for lunch..uuhh yeeah!

Primata Schmutzer is a place for primates, apes and the family of this animal. This building was built with very good and warm place for living. The sad things are some of area is not maintained well and some primates looked lonely..haha lol...I think it's only my feeling.

The main gate of Primata Schmutzer

Mom is loving and caring

Simpanse

Hang in the tree

This Mr.Gorilla needs friend, or maybe girlfriend..

Please give one for him..hehe

Well, I hope you enjoyed it! Occasionally, bring your family, friend or even your boyfriend to have holiday in Zoo.

Sunday, September 18, 2016

On this great years, I want to do many things to make my life better and to be a useful for others. I joined as volunteer in "Sekolah Anak Bahari". Sekolah Anak Bahari is social organization that help coastal children to get better education. We do non formal education for the children, but we also contribute on some projects for the local people and also environment. You can call me newbie here, but meet this team made me already like family. No classification, no gender, no senior or newbie, no differences. If we have the same mission, so we are one, we are unite, and we are "volunteer".

Sekolah Anak Bahari is not only places for study math, reading or writing. We teach the children arts, sing a song, DIY, how to re-use waste material, and also how to love environment. We realized that to make a change we can not work alone, we have to work together. So happy that many communities or foundation help us to make a better education for coastal children. Some of them help us to build the school, give book, table, and other study equipments. Some of them also share knowledge they knew, below are some activities that we already done for the coastal people in Tanjung Anom - Kait.

On 14th August Sekolah Anak Bahari (SAB) collaborate with Lions Club did small project about "Youth and Environment". Children in Tanjung Anom - Kait was educated about how to separate "organic" and "an-organic" waste. Two recycle bin already provided in front of SAB School. They did action by cleaning trash near the school and beach, then threw the waste into "organic" or "an-organic" recycle bin, based on its criteria.

Green mussel shells are very many found there, it becomes waste and nobody cares or uses it. So, we trained local mother to reduce green mussel shells waste as decoration. Together we made handicraft , mosaic from green mussel shells. They were so happy and excited, so am I.

On 28th of August, our school also join with health community to share about personal hygiene with the children. They thought the children how to wash hands well and how to brush their teeth in correct way. SAB's children are very happy and enthusiastic with this activity.

Thanks a lot for our friends who help us make the spirit keep alive....fighting !!! :)

Friday, September 2, 2016

Today I found this superb app to learn foreign language easily. It called "Babbel", this app is the new way to learn foreign language. There are various language you can find in this app. Learning foreign language becomes fun and easier, because it gives you not only the words but also the voice from the narrator, so you can hear the accent from each different language, then practice it like a native speaker..haha
I'm interested to learn Dutch and French language, but the spelling for several letter are difficult.

I hope you have a great , sunny, cheerful day.. like a sunshine today...

For all photo lovers, I want to share with you guys, about new application which is booming recently.

The app is Prisma. Prisma is a photo-editing application that makes use of a neural network and artificial intelligence to transform the image into an artistic effect. It give beautiful result and so artsy.

This app was created by Alexey Moiseenkov and it was launched on June 2016 as a free mobile app. Whooo..how kind he is, isn't ?

Prisma transforms your photo into work of art, there are a lot of style of famous artists, such as : Van Gogh, Picasso, Levitan, etc. But, not only style of famous artist that you can find in Prisma, you also can choose world famous pattern, ornament, and mosaic. So, here we go, some of my photos that became so colorful and artsy, because the Prisma touch...hahaha

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Hi my friends..It's been a long time, I don't write on blog...~ ~ ~
On this good day, I want to tell you about my other journey... So, be ready OK !!!!
Yeeaaaayyy..

Several days ago I joined trip to visit 3 little pretty islands in Kepulauan Seribu, Jakarta. The 3 little islands are Kelor, Onrust, and Cipir. On this vacation, my trip is about "travel history". Why "travel history"? Because, despite of travelling, we will get more information about location that we've visited. Yeepp..all past story why these things are here..!!!

My Route
Go to Jakarta Kota station - - - Use public transportation --- for public transport you can order GO-Jek or Grab motor, for more saving just use mobile transport, the red one car with destination to Muara Kamal Port. From Muara Kamal port, you can cross the island using traditional boat.

Kelor Island

The weather was so great, the sun shone brightly. Firstly arrived at this small island, I can see the white sand and blue clear water around the island.

The thing that attracted my attention was the old castle on the end of the island. The castle was so beautiful. I've watched this castle on TV and celebrity couple ever used this place for wedding ceremony...*what a romantic place!

The castle is named "Martello". Martello castle was built by VOC (Netherlands) long time ago. As we known, Indonesian has strong bound with the dutch. When colonialism, Netherlands built the fortress to face the Portuguese attack. Now, the fortress become a castle in my fairyland...*lol

See you on the next trip Kelor island (^0^)

Onrust Island
Not far from Kelor island, you can visit Onrust. Onrust island is bigger than Kelor. This island also has local people who live there. Onrsut is the center of history between Kelor and Cipir island, because long time ago, on this land many incidents happened.

Onsrust itself was named by Dutch which means "un rest". Why? because the island was very busy. In 1615 the VOC built a shipyard and a small storage house on the island.

In 1911-1933, Onrust island became a quarantine station for pilgrims returning from the Hajj. A barrack was built in 1911 that contained 35 units for about 100 pilgrims.
From 1933 until 1940, the Dutch used Onrust to hold the mutineers involved in the Incident of the Seven Ships (Zeven Provincien).
After the Japanese invaded Indonesia in 1942, the role of Onrust island declined again and it became a prison for serious criminals.
In 1972 Ali Sadikin, then governor of Jakarta, declared Onrust Island a protected historical site. In 2002 the administration made Onrust and its three neighbors - the islands of Cipir, Kelor and Bidadari - an archaeological park to protect the artifacts and ruins on the islands that date back to the time of the Dutch East India Company.Cipir Island

When you arrived in Cipir island , you will see old buildings like this. These old building seems to be the hospital long time ago, the place lil bit spooky. Cipir island was area for hospital that took care and quarantine of infectious diseases for pilgrims in 1911-1933.

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Other advantages from travelling is you can meet new friends. New friends means new family for me. Meet new people, can make your mind open and stay positive, because you never judge people at first time you met is bad, isn't it?

Quote : Get out from your comfort zone, the nature out there is waiting for you !!!

Snorkeling : Attenttion !!!!Please for everyone who snorkeling or swimming near corals, keep your fins away from the coral, don't break any corals, because it need very long time to grow in every inch. Also don't throw your trash to the sea. Be a nice and a wise traveler , OK !!!